How to Use gull in a Sentence

gull

noun
  • By now, the puffins had vacated the area, and gulls swarmed the sea caves.
    Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The wind was suddenly up; the gulls beat their wings hard against it to hold still.
    Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • When the camera zooms back in on the gull, blood can be seen streaming from its neck.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Has a gull ever snatched a French fry from you, or made a dive at your sandwich?
    Marlene Zuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
  • About a dozen years ago, a Ross’s gull was spotted at Montrose Beach.
    oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
  • My clumsy, blue skis begin to skim the lake, like a sea gull scanning for snacks.
    Gloria Goodale, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • One of those species is the California gull, Utah’s state bird.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • As the gull hurtled toward the ground a hot spark from a switch engine settled on McPhidias’ neck.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Behnken and Hurley arrive at the pad and emerge from the Tesla’s gull-wing doors in matching white SpaceX flight suits.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 May 2020
  • Nearby a Herring gull chick sought shelter under the shade of a dead tern.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • Birds that flock, such as gulls and Canada geese, also tend to do more damage, Dolbeer said, adding the mass of a group.
    Doug Caruso, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Whitecaps seethed and simmered on the ocean; gulls somersaulted in the squally air.
    Aaron Hicklin, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • As a the seal swims toward the presumably edible item, a gull swoops in and tries to claim it for itself.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The gull and mussels tested low for toxic algae, but the salmon liver was hot.
    Karen Pinchin, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The seal, missing its tale but still alive, later washes ashore and is set upon by gulls.
    Outdoor Life, 12 July 2023
  • Lively's major co-star is a gull named Steven Seagull, in case you weren't already sold.
    Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 17 June 2022
  • The gulls are in Anchorage; that is definitely one sign of warmer weather to come.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • That something was a gull stuck in a thick layer of ice encasing the park where the Niagra River meets Lake Eerie.
    Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • For those who remembered the earlier days of the war between human and gull, this was the most beautiful truce.
    New York Times, 23 June 2022
  • And for a brief moment the outfielders – all of them – looked like gulls from Mission Bay chasing scraps rather than chasing down fly balls.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 July 2023
  • If the bear stumbled into Bodega Bay while all the crows, sparrows, and gulls were losing their goddamn minds, she’d be overwhelmed by the swarm.
    Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Slowing to a halt, the vessel sways and sea gulls circle while the traps are winched on board and emptied, with shiny black lobsters and muddy brown crabs pulled free and stored on deck.
    Stephen Castle Andrew Testa, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • There's not a junior auto enthusiast on the planet who hasn't marveled at the sleek lines and gull-wing doors of a Lambo.
    Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2022
  • After about an hour, a rocky shoreline studded with terns and gulls materialized out of the heavy fog.
    Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • Directly above the Sun, dipping down to touch the halo (the math term for this is osculating, which means kissing) is a gull-wing curve called the tangent arc.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2012
  • The first astronauts launched by SpaceX are breaking new ground for style with hip spacesuits, gull-wing Teslas and a sleek rocketship — all of it white with black trim.
    Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2020
  • There’s an old Icelandic myth that holds that this volcano, one of the country’s most active and destructive, is the gate of hell, and the hundreds of gulls circling it are condemned souls.
    Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The bird looked like a Ross’s gull — a very rare visitor from the high Arctic that last stopped for an extended visit at Chicago-area beaches in 1978.
    Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There is nothing like a gull for a really rapid dispersal of the virus and really long distances.
    New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • Bès photographed this gull near Rausu port on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022

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